Hillary on target to raise more money in second quarter than first quarter

[Herman Munster]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/us/politics/07clinton.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Mrs. Clinton raised $26 million in the first quarter of 2007. According to the data, she has received commitments of at least $23.2 million for the second quarter. Several top donors said yesterday that they would take in more checks than they had predicted, at least one by more than $100,000. And with the campaign expecting to raise at least $4 million through the Internet and direct mail, Mrs. Clinton is poised to raise more than her first-quarter total — perhaps considerably more.

“They were expecting only $325,000 in actual commitments from me because I had promised as much as $500,000, but I’m on track to deliver all $500,000,” said Jay Jacobs, a prominent Democratic fund-raiser and party leader on Long Island, who held a dinner with Mr. Clinton on May 5. “I’m not going to be embarrassed and explain that I tried but didn’t succeed with $500,000.”

Mrs. Clinton’s top fund-raising lieutenants say that the goal of the Clintons — who are described as deeply involved and deeply competitive on the fund-raising front — is to exceed the first quarter’s $26 million by a comfortable margin. Doing so, these donors and her political advisers say, would telegraph to party insiders, the news media and voters that Mrs. Clinton is building political momentum after her performances in two televised debates and her campaign appearances this spring.

“We are on target to have the largest second-quarter fund-raising total in Democratic Party history,” said Howard Wolfson, a Clinton campaign spokesman. “There were many questions raised about whether we would be able to match our first-quarter effort. We will.”

[Quixote1818]

1. Obama is beating her again though.

Obama To Beat Clinton In Second Quarter Fundraising

June 6, 2007 05:04 PM

The Huffington Post has learned from sources close to both candidates that the Obama campaign will surpass the Clinton campaign in second quarter fundraising. "It's a matter of pure mathematics," an Obama fundraiser told HuffPost. "We had 104,000 donors in the first quarter; Clinton had 60,000. And while 75 percent of Hillary's contributors had maxed out, only 50 percent of ours had. So we had had a lot more potential to grow -- and we did." The fundraising period for this quarter ends on June 30, and campaigns have until July 15 to disclose their numbers. "Even though there are over three weeks left," a Clinton source told HuffPost, "it will be next to impossible for us to make up the difference. The machine we have at the $2,300 level is a superior machine, but the Obama campaign continues to beat us with small donors and on the Internet."



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/06/obama-to-beat-clinton-in-_n_51038.html

[Herman Munster]

2. if you are referring to the huffington post article

the obama campaign denied the report. Read the complete NY Times article. They may be lowering expectations but Hillary will have more than enough money to compete whatever Obama raises.

She's going to have $100 million+ for the primaries alone.

[nerddem]

3. i'm an undergrad and i gave a little to obama

one of the many many small donors that were able to take on goliath in the last quarter. i'll have to give a little again.